Fw: [IFLA-L] 2012 Library RFID Survey

Хэрвээ таны ажилладаг номын сангийн үйлчилгээнд RFID технологи нэвтэрсэн, нэвтрүүлэхээр ярилцаж байгаа бол дараах хаягуудаар орж судалгаанд оролцох, мэдээлэл олж авах боломжтой.

Судалгааны тухай: http://ht.ly/8oFrM.>

Судалгаанд оролцох: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RFID2012

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Ж.Бэгзсүрэн

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From: Mick Fortune <mick@mickfortune.com>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 2:34 AM
Subject: [IFLA-L] 2012 Library RFID Survey

Dear colleagues

The 2012 Library RFID Survey has now been running for exactly a week and 272 replies have been received so far - with Australian libraries being the most prolific - at 103. UK libraries follow closely behind on 101, with US libraries trailing them both by some distance - at only 16. This is may be a reflection of the survey’s active promotion by professional bodies such as CILIP and ALIA, and the interest shown on Twitter by UK and Australian librarians.

We’re still hoping that the ALA might be persuaded to take an interest.

Libraries in Canada, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden and Switzerland are also represented.

Early responses suggest that the expanded Bibliotheca Group (comprising Bibliotheca AG, Bibliotheca-Intellident and Bibliotheca-ITG) may now be the leading supplier with 57 of their clients having responded so far. In second place are 3M with 36, with Australian supplier FE Technologies in third place with 17.

Of the 90 libraries that set themselves self-service targets only 21% failed to meet them, while 56% felt that they had achieved the overall return on investment they had expected (37% “Don’t know”).

28% of respondents are sufficiently unhappy with the level of technical support they receive that based on that alone they would not recommend their supplier to anyone else  – however only 12% are so unhappy with their solution that they would not recommend it.

Introducing self-service loans remains the most important reason for investing in RFID (at 73%) with “reducing costs” rated as very important by 42% of respondents. By far the least important factor in choosing RFID is the possibility of using it to share resources with other libraries. 88% of librarians rated this as “not very” or completely “unimportant”.

This last figure may disappoint those in the UK following the “Future Libraries” initiative which, among other aims, seeks to promote greater sharing of resources.  It will be interesting to see if the picture changes over the remaining fortnight that the survey remains open.

What is already clear is that the way in which RFID is being deployed varies considerably from country to country. UHF, for example, is far more popular in Australia than anywhere else where LMS(ILS) vendors have also by-passed the RFID companies altogether and developed their own tightly integrated RFID solutions.

Re-tagging of the entire collection (to accommodate a new supplier) seems not to be as unusual in the USA as it is in other countries. This may go some way toward explaining why librarians there also appear to be less interested in using a common data model than their counterparts in the UK and Australia.

There is a wealth of additional information in this year’s survey that time prevents my analysing in detail right now but please keep those replies coming in – and make sure tell your colleagues to do the same!

More information and a link to the survey itself may be found at http://ht.ly/8oFrM.>

Huge thanks to everyone who has already taken part!

Mick Fortune      

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